I have no notion of where the Trump Presidency will ultimately lead the United States and the wider world, but its chaotic nature is very troublesome. Like many others, I have said before that Trump seemed unfit for the office before he won in 2016 and would maintain now that this has been blindingly obvious since. He is a very odd person and unlike anyone who has occupied the White House previously.

I bear the man no ill-will and I truly hope he can make a difference for the good. His temperamental unsuitability will make that difficult. His tangential relationship to the truth (something likely learnt in his years as a property developer) means it is hard to take anything he says at face value or to know whether a statement in the morning will be contradicted in the afternoon. A case in point is his follow-up remarks which came in the wake of his meeting with President Putin in Helsinki. People in power seem often to misspeak and so too did Trump. A would becomes a wouldn't. Memories are short and the media will doubtless move on to the next controversy.



Incidentally, Nietzsche meant the phrase God is Dead in a figurative sense to express the idea that the Enlightenment had killed off the possibility of a belief in any god having ever existed. He wasn't proclaiming it as a fact, rather, pointing to the difficulty of being a believer in the modern era.